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Webster 1913 Edition
Faulty
Fault′y
,Adj.
1.
Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
Created once
So goodly and erect, though
So goodly and erect, though
faulty
since. Milton.
2.
Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
Shak.
The king doth speak . . . as one which is
faulty
. 2 Sam. xiv. 13.
Webster 1828 Edition
Faulty
FAULT'Y
,Adj.
1.
Containing faults, blemishes or defects; defective; imperfect; as a faulty composition or book; a faulty plan or design; a faulty picture.2.
Guilty of a fault or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.The king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty.
1Sam. 14.
3.
Wrong; erroneous; as a faulty polity.4.
Defective; imperfect; bad; as a faulty helmet.Definition 2024
faulty
faulty
English
Adjective
faulty (comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)
- Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "faulty" is often applied: goods, equipment, product, wiring, construction, memory, thinking, design, hardware, software, unit, part, component, assumption, reasoning, premise, gene, operation, technique, merchandise, circuit, code, analysis, posture, machine, method, habit, process, communication.
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Translations
having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable
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